Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul (born January 6, 1912, Bordeaux, France—died May 19, 1994, Bordeaux) was a French political and social scientist, Protestant theologian, and philosopher of technology, best known for his critical analysis of what he called “technique,” which he defined (in La Technique: ou, l’enjeu du siècle [1954; The Technological Society]) as “the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity.” In...